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Workers used air guns to blast the silica sand out of the many tunnels that had been excavated 100 feet beneath the Ford plant. The sand was loaded into small electric carts and carried by conveyer up to the furnaces where it would be made into glass. Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society
Posted on January 1, 1926January 8, 2019 by Geoff Myers

1926

Glass plant operation starts

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